Multimodality cardiovascular imaging in the diagnosis and management of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis in children report of two cases and brief review of the literature.
Ariya N ChauPierangelo RenellaAntonio ArrietaPublished in: Cardiology in the young (2019)
Diagnosing prosthetic valve infective endocarditis in children is challenging. Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography can yield false-negative results. Data are lacking in paediatric multimodality imaging in prosthetic valve infective endocarditis. We present two children with repaired CHD where initial echocardiogram was non-diagnostic, while CT angiogram and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in combination with CT angiography, respectively, confirmed the diagnosis of endocarditis affecting clinical management.
Keyphrases
- positron emission tomography
- computed tomography
- aortic valve
- young adults
- mitral valve
- high resolution
- pet ct
- aortic stenosis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- pulmonary hypertension
- heart failure
- pet imaging
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance
- electronic health record
- deep learning
- machine learning
- image quality
- big data
- fluorescence imaging
- coronary artery disease
- left atrial appendage
- data analysis